The geography of the imagination : forty essays / by Guy Davenport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davenport, Guy.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Nonpareil book ; 78.

Nonpareil book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Arts.

Art criticism.

American essays--20th century.

American essays.

Art--essays.

Art.

Imagination--essays.

Imagination.

American prose literature--20th century.

American prose literature.

Essays.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, x, 384 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : David R. Godine Publisher, [1997]

Contents:

The Geography of the imagination; The symbol of the archaic; Another Odyssey; The house that Jack built; Prehistoric eyes; Whitman; Olson; Zukofsky; Marianne Moore; Spinoza's tulips; Do you have a poem book on E.E.Cummings?; Seeing Shelley plain; Persephone's Ezra; The Pound Vortex; Ezra Pound 1885-1972; "Trees"; Jonathan Williams; Ronald Johnson; Poetry's Garden; Where poems come from; Ishmael's double; Louis Agassiz; That faire field of Enna; Charles Ives; Ozymandias; Hopkins: Christ's cunning rimesmith; Joyce's forest of symbols; Mandelstam: The man without contemporaries; Narrative tone and form; Tchelitchew; Jack Yeats the elder; Wittgenstein; Hobbitry; Dictionary; No, but I've read the book; The Anthropology of table manners from Geophagy onward; The indian and his image; Finding; Ralph Eugene Meatyard; Ernst Machs Max Ernst.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1981 by North Point Press, San Francisco"--T.p. verso.

Publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end.

ISBN:

1567920802

9781567920802

OCLC:

37106990